Over the next few months, expect to see more people staring intently at their cell phones for minutes at a time, tapping their feet, oohing and ahhing, and breaking into giggles from time to time.

Much of the buzz surrounding rapid consumer adoption of new portable video platforms such as video cell phones, iPods, PSPs and Slingboxes, appears to be more a function of industry hype than reality.

As schools grapple with how to keep students off their cell phones, one Connecticut school took a blunt approach. In Manchester, Illing Middle School requires students to lock phones in a pouch until ...